KRA wrote:As you can see on thunderbird there is a -nb -nb_NObut on enigmail (whatever that is) there is no - in front.

If I understand emerge correctly, then I will not get norwegian thunderbird !!? why is that ?

I'm using the 3.4a 64bit (I have a amd64 single core) should I make any changes to the make.conf regarding compiling etc ? Is there a guide of things one should "optimize" or do after install ?

Check your /etc/portage/package.use those linguas could be turned off explicitely (don't ask me why).
Generally go through your /etc/portage/package.* files (they are a bit crufty IMHO) and look for abnormalities. Also have a look at /etc/make.conf (VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES in particular).

so for me national language support was a "solved problem". But my try with thunderbind look like i don't have any more a LINGUAS="ro* part. Why? I suspect because thunderbind don't have at all romanian support. But for nb part i try also, to be sure what im talking here is not warporware, this variant:

you see -linguas_nb and -linguas_nb_NO is here. edit that line in package.use and delete that part and now try again ... also edit you LINGUAS line in make.conf and put here something like me, for you i suspect LINGUAS="en nb" is ok. And then try again. I hope is working now ... For me is no hope, my language is not even masked, and with all my good settings, working for firefox, can not pull up ro in any form to my thunderbird install ...

then, lost any hope, do it again .... and after some time, 1+0.5 hours almost, my proc chewing the bits:

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No.blablabla part is here.>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

* Messages for package mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.6:

* You are enabling official branding. You may not redistribute this build * to any users on your network or the internet. Doing so puts yourself into * a legal problem with Mozilla Foundation * You can disable it by emerging mozilla-thunderbird _with_ the bindist USE-flag * Sorry, but mozilla-thunderbird does not support the ro LINGUA * Selected language packs (first will be default): en * Sorry, but mozilla-thunderbird does not support the ro LINGUA * Please remerge x11-plugins/enigmail after updating mozilla-thunderbird. * Installing includes and idl files... * Removing old installs with some really ugly code. It potentially * eliminates any problems during the install, however suggestions to * replace this are highly welcome. Send comments and suggestions to * [email protected]

* Messages for package x11-plugins/enigmail-0.95.2-r1:

* Sorry, but enigmail does not support the ro LINGUA * Sorry, but enigmail does not support the ro LINGUA * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.